Elizabeth serenade

The Elizabethan Serenade ( Engl. Elizabethan Serenade ) is a piece of music of the British composer Ronald Binge from the year 1951. With their catchy, melting melody it is a well-known example of the British Light Music .

Binge originally wrote the piece as an instrumental version for the Mantovani Orchestra , for which it became a great success. In addition, various text versions were created by third-party authors, such as Where the Gentle Avon Flows (Christopher Hassall, after 1952), Only for You (Louise Tucker, 1983), Hör mein Lied, Elisabeth (German; Erik Wallnau and Ann Heston, 1962), Droomwens (Dutch; De Selvera's, 1960, with the Incipit Steeds as ik dit wijsje hoor ), Hør min sang, Elisabeth (Danish; Raquel Rastenni, 1963), Hör min sång (Swedish; Inger Berggren, 1963), Elisabet-serenadi(Finnish; Sauvo Puhtila, 1963), Élisabeth Sérénade (French; Pierret Beauchamp, 1967), Alžbětínská serenáda (Czech; Zdeněk Borovec, 1975, interpreted by Karel Gott with the incipit Zapal svíčky sváteční ).

The piece originally appeared under the simple title Andante cantabile . In 1952, the year in which Queen Elizabeth II's reign began , it was republished under the final title Elizabethan Serenade , which is intended to reflect the optimistic mood of the time and the hope for a new Elizabethan age . This meaning has been lost in the German translation of the title.

The most famous interpretations of the Elisabeth Serenade in the German-speaking world include:

Instrumental: Mantovani , Ron Goodwin , James Last , Richard Clayderman , Klaus Wunderlich , Boris Gardiner ( Elizabethan Reggae , 1970)
Vocal: Günter Kallmann Chor ( hit parade 1962 ), Fischerchöre , Peter Alexander , Eva Lind , Louise Tucker , Karel Gott , Roger Whittaker (whistled), Ivan Rebroff (satirical).

The Elisabethserenade can also be heard in the score for the operetta film Die Försterchristel (1962), as well as in the film Shopaholic - The Bargain Hunter (original title: Confessions of a Shopaholic ), comedy by director PJ Hogan (2009). The Czech version, interpreted by Karel Gott with the Incipit Zapal svíčky sváteční ( Light the candles), became a well-known and still popular Christmas carol in communist Czechoslovakia .

Individual evidence

^ Reuben musicians, Naomi musicians: Conductors and composers of popular orchestral music: a biographical and discographical sourcebook . Greenwood Press, Westport CT 1998, ISBN 0-313-30260-X , p. 24 ( limited preview in Google book search).
^ Booklet for the CD Elizabethan Serenade: The Best of British Light Music , Naxos 8.553515
↑ Stefan Michael Newerkla : Pour féliciter… Of festivals and congratulations in the cultural transfer between West and East Central Europe. In: Ioan Lăzărescu & Doris Sava (eds.): Constance and Variation. The German language in Central, Eastern and Southeastern Europe. Festschrift for Hermann Scheuringer. Wissenschaftlicher Verlag Berlin - WBV, Berlin 2017, pp. 299–307; on the song pp. 299–301.

[1] Reuben musicians, Naomi musicians: Conductors and composers of popular orchestral music: a biographical and discographical sourcebook . Greenwood Press, Westport CT 1998, ISBN 0-313-30260-X , p. 24 ( limited preview in Google book search).

[2] Booklet for the CD Elizabethan Serenade: The Best of British Light Music , Naxos 8.553515

[3] Stefan Michael Newerkla : Pour féliciter… Of festivals and congratulations in the cultural transfer between West and East Central Europe. In: Ioan Lăzărescu & Doris Sava (eds.): Constance and Variation. The German language in Central, Eastern and Southeastern Europe. Festschrift for Hermann Scheuringer. Wissenschaftlicher Verlag Berlin - WBV, Berlin 2017, pp. 299–307; on the song pp. 299–301.